Wonderful Tools
Brushes are characters and have bad hair days
I thought I would do another live drawing session, help you take your mind off politics for a moment and look at old brushes with me.
Some of the tools I featured today are old friends and new.
I need to apolotize to this brush. I unfortunately put it down and said it was not “a good brush,” just because it’s bristle condition is visibly fuzzy. But I was wrong, it is a sable brush, meaning it’s good quality. It’s just having a bad hair day.
Below is one of my old treasured watercolor brushes. It’s taped together because after repeated dunking in water, the metal top that holds the bristles starts to seperate from the wood holder.
And then I played with these colored pencils, which are water soluable.
I hope you enjoyed this little ten minute interlude in your otherwise busy and maybe stressful day!
My equivalent of your well-loved, taped brush is an old paperback copy of David McCullough’s Mornings on Horseback, my favorite biography, taped and worn. I studied it as I was learning to write biography. Thanks for the restful clip, Liza, and for welcoming us into your studio.
I’ve left the living room and my husband watching ESPN to lie in the cool darkness of the bedroom, get comfortable and watch this through. It gives me peace to watch as you work, explaining the medium and technique as firms take shape.
Yes it is hard segueing from the outsized power of the Supreme Court,wondering if our daughters (all of them) will have an unwelcome third party sitting in the room with them and their doctor to monitor life decisions of such consequence. Or give a usurper who threatens what we hold dear in our country, the kind of power never meant for an individual to wield in government.
But this helps. A lot.